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Meaning of HEMIMETABOLIC

Pronunciation:  `hemee`metu'bâlik

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[adj]  (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult
 

HEMIMETABOLIC is a 13 letter word that starts with H.

 

 Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous, metamorphic
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic\, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larv[ae] differing
from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the
grasshoppers and cockroaches.

 

 

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